FLOOD TIDE

• (noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

  "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"

  synonyms : flood , rising tide

• (noun) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

  "the climax of the artist's career", "in the flood tide of his success"

  synonyms : climax

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